All 3 Uses of
decorum
in
The Lords of Discipline
- There was a decorous, efficient simplicity in this transfiguration from civilian to military, and the cadre performed its tasks with extraordinary precision and dispatch.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama.†
Chpt 3.27decorum = proper manners and conduct
- There was an unnamable loneliness to the harp and also a quiet, decorous lust in its accompaniment.†
Chpt 4.48
Definition:
manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste